"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."
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"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."
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"Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason."
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"Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations."
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"A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants."
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"Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious"
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"There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition"
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"I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records."
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"Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain."
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"Was wirklich zählt, ist Intuition"
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"Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have"
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
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"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is."
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"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
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"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
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"I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself."
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"When intuition and logic agree, you are always right."
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"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."
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"As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world"
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